Project Management Monitoring and Evaluation

About the Course

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The CPM seminar is structured to help participants acquire skills and knowledge to enable the implementation of quality projects, in time and within budgetary constraints. A fundamental background on the project management key performance indicators, concepts and practice of monitoring and evaluation will be established, whereby participants will be asked to relate their training to actual issues and experiences at their place of work.

COURSE OBJECTIVE

  The overall objective of this course is to enhance the knowledge, understanding and skills of participants in the concepts of project and business management in the firm.

SUMMARY COURSE OUTLINE

The following issues will be discussed:

Why Project Management? Overview of Project Initiation, Planning, Implementation, Control and Closure. Scheduling and planning projects to ensure targets are accomplished timely. Managing budgetary constraints to ensure the effective completion of projects Monitoring & Evaluation as a component of project planning and implementation process. Monitoring tools, methods and procedures. Evaluation types (process evaluation, impact evaluation, etc) and Evaluation models (pre and post evaluation, case control etc.) Ms. Project – Software Used in scheduling, estimating etc.

PROGRAMME OF STUDY

There will be 6 interactive academic study hours per day for 4 (Four) days Monday to Thursday. The number of study hours amounts to 24 academic hours in total.